Would You Like to Live Your Best Life?

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortez. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortez. Welcome back to

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Working on Purpose. Thanks for tuning
again this week. I'm your host,

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Elise Cortez, joining it from Dallas, Texas, which is home base for

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me. This program is all about
helping people more meaningfully and productively connect with

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their work and equipping organizations to do
the same for their employees. It was

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originally inspired by the meaning work research
I've been doing over the last fifteen years

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and now compliments the work that I
do as a speaker, management consultant and

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coach. I'll get to the program
in just a second, but let me

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This week is Sean Anderson, who
is a motivational author, unlimited thinker,

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and lifetime entrepreneur with a history of
inspiring others. He's a sick time

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author with the latest book called Amicus
one oh one, a story about the

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pursuit of purpose and overcoming life's chaos
is also the human spark plug behind the

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extra Mile day a day, recognizing
the power we have to create positive change.

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When we go with the extra Mile, we'll be talking about something really

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fun for us. This day.
We're going to have a conversation that's all

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about how do we live a great
life? Sean, Welcome to working one

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purpose Alas. It is my privilege
to be back here a second time.

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And before we get going, I
just want to share that one of my

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team members, Belinda, says that
her all time favorite interview is the one

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that was done with Alice Cortez,
only because you have such great passion and

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energy, and so it's my privilege
to be on your show again today.

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Wow, Sean and Belinda, if
you're listening, thank you for that high

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praise. That's wonderful. It was
a great conversation, was back in March,

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and I have had listeners reach out
and say, oh my gosh,

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that was great. Got something out
of that. And when I do retreat

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that show, by the way,
Sean, people are just it just gets

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so much energy around it. People
keep retweeting it. So there's clearly something

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too that the power of inspiring and
living the kind of life that we that

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we want. So I'm so glad
to have you back and that we stay

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in touch, that we're connected.
And this conversation is really all about I

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want to I want to have us
both way in on how do you live

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a great life? So will you
please start? What's your thought about that?

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Sean? How do we go about
this? Well? Gosh, before

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we start, I'd like to give
just one small shout out to job Inc.

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Because it's companies like job Inc That
are sponsoring this show today that not

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only you know, really help all
the listeners be able to have this amazing

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at least Cortez show, but you
know it, it gives us the vehicle

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to keep on inspiring and motivating and
living are the best version of ourselves.

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So way to go, job ink. So awesome. Yes, thank you,

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I totally agree. Thank you.
You know, how do we live?

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How do we live our best life? Well, let me begin by

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saying, what does your best life
look like? If you were to close

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your eyes and you were to think, Wow, what does my best life

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really look like? What does your
best relationship look like? What does your

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best job look like? You know, what does your what does your health

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look like? See, because we
can never live the best version of our

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life unless we know what that looks
like, right, Absolutely, the vision

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you got to be able to see
it. What does the best version of

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your life look like? Elist Cortez, Well, you know I have actually

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created the vision of that, and
it is absolutely you know, it's the

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whole notion of living a life based
around how how do I actually want to

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roll through it? And that means
what kind of what kinds of things do

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I want to be doing, who
do I want to be connected to?

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And so for me, right,
so much of how I situate myself,

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Sean, is I think, yes, I'm happy to be an American.

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I'm proud to be an American,
and I consider myself a citizen of the

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planet. That means for me that
I want to be connected to citizens across

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the planet. So travel is huge
for me, I know it is for

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YouTube. Going and experiencing different cultures
and working with them is just fundamental for

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me. So that's huge. Having
a lifestyle and work that lets me travel

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the globe is huge. I think
we've talked about the fact that I love

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languages, Sean, So I speak
Portuguese and Spanish pretty comfortably. I used

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to live in Spain and Brazil.
That's part of the reason for that.

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And then I can have some utility
in French and Italian and will absolutely activate

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it when I get more chances to
go there. So working in those languages

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is really important. The other piece
for me is I got it. My

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whole thing, Sean, is what
I'm about is uplifting humanity and that I

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do that through provoking insight and empowering
growth. And so for me, as

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long as I get a chance to
talk to people about the stuff that is

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going to ignite them and uplift them, I'm happy. Whether that is,

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whether that's speaking, whether that's organizational
development, whatever it is, it's all

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got a roll together. That's what
that's what it is for me. What

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about you, well, I the
vision from my life is I want to

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be able to run a marathon at
age seventy number one. So everything centers

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around health because if I don't have
excellent health in my life, everything else

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suffers just a little bit. If
I don't have excellent health, my work

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suffers, my vision suffers, my
purpose suffers. Health is the health is

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like the root of everything great that
will happen as far as being able to

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walk the vision of my life.
So every day, you know, it's

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something that I really work towards,
eating right, exercising multiple times a day.

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Health number two, Man, I
want to walk across ten countries.

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I literally want to walk in my
tennis across or around ten different countries because,

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like you, I have such a
passion for travel, and when I

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combine it with the simplicity of carrying
nothing but a backpack and just walking and

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meeting people and experiencing adventures, I
think that is the ultimate way that refreshes

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and revitalizes my own heart and my
own purpose. What else do I see

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from my life? I really do
want to get one million books of mine

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out into the public. It has
nothing to do with making money. It

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has everything to do with sharing a
message that I think that can wake up

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people and help them live their best
life. So there's three three for you

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right there. Okay, I gotta
I got a probe on a couple of

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things. First, you and I
share, of course, the whole health

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foundation. You know, you and
I both I think exercise at least well

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I know, I just said about
an hour and a half every day,

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So that is huge for me.
Too, And I'll say a little something

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maybe later on if it comes up
about the half marathon that I did this

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weekend. It was so fun and
awesome. I felt great about it.

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But the other thing that I want
to call out for our listeners that I

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really appreciate it about you is that
you really, literally do go the extra

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mile in your whole life. And
that's one of the reasons I wanted to

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talk with you about how to have
a great life, because I think,

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and you know, you're you're walking
the talk. So you've already walked across

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what three countries sean five five five, who's counting? What are they?

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I've walked across the country of England. I've walked across the country of Ireland.

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I've walked five hundred and fifty miles
from France to Spain to the Ocean.

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I've walked up the entire coast of
Portugal to Spain. And I've walked

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seven hundred and fifty miles around Shikoku, Japan. That's amazing. Do you

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know that when you said Ireland,
you said Ireland Ireland, and I liked

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that, Yes you did, You
said it just like that. Sorry,

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you're going to say and at least, although I haven't walked across the United

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States, I have pedaled to by
coast to coast solo twice. And I

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the reason that I want to call
that out, Sean, I know that

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you're very humble about all that stuff, but I want to call it up

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because I want our listeners to get
that. You know, when we when

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we talk about this notion of having
a great life, that we're not just

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not just speaking conceptually about this.
I mean both of us are engaged in

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making this happen. You're you know, you have been doing this for a

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lot longer than I have in terms
of going after purpose in your life,

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and your books actually show that.
But I just think it's so important for

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our listeners to get because people are
stuck, Sean. I mean there,

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I talk to people all the time
who tell me, you know, I

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don't know how to make my dreams
come true because I'm just putting one foot

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after the other and just getting through
the life that I that I have now,

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I don't know how to get past
that. So what do you say

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to people who who tell you that. I'm sure you hear that too.

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Well, let's just start start with
two questions. First off, what do

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you love about your life right now? Is there is there things that you

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want to? Continue? Number two, we ask, well, what is

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it that you really dislike about your
life? Because we've got to we've got

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to really clarify what we like and
what we don't like because we want more

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of the first and we want less
of the second, and we can't.

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We again, we can't create a
life that we love. We never can

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unless we really are so connected with
ourselves that we know what we dig,

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that we know what we like,
that we know that we love. You

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know, if you go to a
restaurant and you go, oh my gosh,

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I've got to order this because it's
so amazing, that's because you love

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it, You've thought about it,
you know that you want it. Well,

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what about the rest of your life? What do you love? What

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do you really want? Again?
It starts with what you think. It

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starts with that self awareness and saying
what do I love about life? Do

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I love connecting with people? Do
I love conversations? You know your very

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best friend that you talk too often, Well, you talk to her because

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you love to talk to him or
her. You love that, so you

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keep doing more of it. That's
the whole thing. Let's find out what

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we like and keep doing more of
it. For a person who travels,

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it says, I love travel.
Well, then where are you going in

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twenty and eighteen? What month are
you headed in? What city? You

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know? Have you got to Let's
let's plan that, see, because once

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we know what we want, what
we like, what we love, we

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have to take the steps to actually
plan and do that. It's one thing

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to have a vision for your world, but vision without action turns into mediocrity.

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It's the action of the vision that
really helps us live the life that

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we love. So let's figure out
what you like, do more of it,

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Let's figure out what you dislike,
do the opposite of it, and

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let's plan to do more and less
of each. You know when she just

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reminded me of Sean when you were
talking about that. Oh my gosh.

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Right, going back to people just
kind of walking through life without passion and

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just feeling numb. I'm coaching a
very, very impressive executive woman right now,

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and one of the reasons she wants
to work together is she said,

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at least I just I want to
discover my passion again. I want to

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know what it is that gets me
going in the morning. And so part

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of what we're doing together, Sean
is she's kind of she's kind of like

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on a mission to the moment that
she feels any thing that feels like excitement

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or joy, that she has to
stop for that moment and either record it

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into her phone or write it down
and we talk about it. So the

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idea is just that to try to
discover what are these patterns, what are

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those things that happen for you or
that you're doing that gets you into that

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place where you feel joy and passion
back where you want to be again.

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And so she's that's her her this
week's assignment, and I can't wait to

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reconnect with her to hear what's happening
for her? Where is it? What

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did you find out? Because you
know, here's a woman who has so

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much talent, Sean. I mean, it's it's incredible, and she's so

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valuable to her company, and yet
and they don't they don't even know just

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you know, how much that she's
hurting and missing out, et cetera.

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And so I think you're so right
trying to figure out what are those things

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that just activate us, that bring
us into our best place and getting really

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clear about what those things are.
I think a lot of us don't really

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know that well. I think that
you created a really excellent assignment for your

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client, because what you've done is
you've created awareness. You've reminded her that

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when you do have these thoughts,
let's write them down, which makes us

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think about it, so we become
aware that, Oh oh, I like

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that. So what you've done is
you've connected her to her whispers. I

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love that you've connected her to the
whispers in all of us that remind us

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what it is that we love most
about life, what it is that creates

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our perfect happiness, are perfect harmony, are perfect motivation, our perfect inspiration.

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And by having her write them down
or record them into our phone or

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sending herself a text message, you're
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yes, yes. And then the
more yes as we create, the

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more that we're bound to keep creating
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and that is exactly right. So
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you can opt into those kinds of
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reminded Sean, oh my gosh,
this is such a fun conversation. I

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knew it would be. I'm reminded
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session for a group of women and
we were talking about you know what lights

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you up, like this kind of
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hand and she goes but I just
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there's so much of what I do
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up. But I'm like, well, what are you doing it for?

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spreadsheets, and her I forget what
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had more to do with, you
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communication stuff like that. You know
what was so awesome is she really got

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present sean to how much of what
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rather than built her up. And
once she became aware of that, which

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is incredibly important, she then could
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you know what she actually did was
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bring me in. She went to
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just could discover something power and I'm
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actually be a producers an insurance company. I want to actually produce and work

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with clients, not spreadsheets. Do
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getting present to what lights me up
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back to what you said, doing
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a beautiful question, why are you
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that's a great question for every person
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for every listener to to really think
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something in your life that's not going
right, why are you still attaching yourself

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to it? Why are you still
doing it? Why are you still walking

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that way? Why? You know? Because I'm pretty sure that no one

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has more power over our own individual
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hope, I would hope. Not
yes, right, right? Right?

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So then, if there's something going
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your looking at, why are you
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with yourself every time you look in
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exercising more? Why do you still
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this question, why do we keep
doing what makes us unhappy? Why do

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we keep doing that? Makes us
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our joy, our harmony, our
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Why do we keep doing those things? Man, there's so many things that

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we will create the opposite feeling.
Let's go do more of those things.

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I completely agree and a great way
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Sean. I'm Elise Cortez, your
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Sean Anderson, who is a human
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and welcome back to working on Purpose
if you're just joining us. My guest

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is motivational author, unlimited thinker,
and lifetime entrepreneur. Sean Anderson is a

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six time author with the latest book
called Amicus one oh one, a story

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about the pursuit of purpose and overcoming
life's chaos. He is also the human

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spark plug behind Extra Mile Day a
Day, recognizing the power we have to

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create positive change when we go the
extra mile. I'm your host, Elise

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Cortez. So Sean, really quick, while I was just saying that about

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you in your background, would you
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what you're doing with Really it's a
movement, this movement that you've got about

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going the extra mile. Would you
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that came from and what you're doing
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It started in two thousand and nine, and at that time there was

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a lot going wrong in America.
There was so much uncertainty, so much

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doubt, so much fear. Businesses
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were losing their homes, and I
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else to create the change that they
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that people were looking to the government
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programs are you going to create to
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felt people were looking at their bosses
saying, gosh, at least, what

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are you going to do to make
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more money in the future. And
even so far as people started looking at

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other people and saying, hey,
what are you going to do to make

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our marriage or our relationship better?
They forgot the general premise, the simplest

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principle about changing your life that if
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you stop looking at the government and
the businesses and the other people in your

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world and you just look at that
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because that's where everything starts and everything
changes. So I decided to remind people

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that it's just not doing what you're
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the extra mile. It's doing more, it's being more giving more, it's

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a living more. And I decided
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in sort of a I guess,
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peddled a bicycle from one ocean to
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I created events in twenty one cities
where in pre identified interviews I talked over

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two hundred people who had done something
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either in volunteerism and service or in
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world a better place. And along
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thousand and nine, I created this
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just wanted to get mayors on board
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volunteers, the individuals and the organizations
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extra mile in volunteerism and service to
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two thousand and nine, on November
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was so happy that I talked twenty
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Twenty three I was going, Oh
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Well, it's continued to grow and
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Mile Day November first, twenty seventeen, and we're trying to beat what we

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did last year. Last year we
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Extra Mile Day and recognized the superstar
volunteer heroes in their city. And you

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know this isn't if I remember this
correctly, Sean, and tell me,

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correct me if I'm wrongng. You're
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this now within the United States.
You're taking this international two correct. Well,

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we've we've done our best to start
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about this extra Mile message around the
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It started in twenty fifteen on my
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I was in the Philippines and I
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to organizations all around the islands,
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twenty thousand people. And you know, we had one mayor and in Bocolo,

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Philippines said I'm going to be the
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gonna go extra mile, And so
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citizens of the world, and it
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Rey, or Dallas, Texas,
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Philippines. We all have these lives
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sure our life is as good as
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if I'm sharing the extra message here
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Africa. Man, we just all
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and we do that when we take
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live it. I will say that
when when you ask me before you know,

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what's my vision of living a great
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that at some point I want to
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I can throw myself into that will
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uplift them the way that you have
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about when we when we can identify
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that really matters, and we throw
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of helping other people, that the
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There is something about that that just
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motivation, pushing and pulling, to
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push something is incredibly powerful. And
I really applaud what you're what you've done,

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Sean, what you continue to do. And then I know you're not

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going to rest until I don't know
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you it's huge. I hope I
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more breasts than me honestly. But
but you know, there's there's two reasons

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that I do what I do.
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know no other way in life to
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for other people than going the extra
mile. It's nothing else has ever worked

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for me. I can't sit there
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work, you know, I can't. I can't try once and and and

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fail and say, well, that
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supposed to have that that that doesn't
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I truly know to create what I
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And that's what going the extra miles
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this extra mile, you keep trying, you keep tweaking your plan, you

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keep tweaking this your actions in order
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what it is to climb Everest, and

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it's not one of the goals that
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got to believe that there are multiple
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saying, I'm so tired, I
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I don't know if I can keep
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to earth more and think about the
half marathon that you just did. There

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were probably points, you know,
as you were training for your very first

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half marathon, that you're going,
oh my god, I can't I don't

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know if I can do five miles. I don't know if I can do

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eight miles. I don't know if
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there's something that keeps those legs moving, and that's what going the extra mile

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isn't. So that's that's the first
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The second thing is, Man,
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this earth, I have felt no
greater joy, no greater happiness than to

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stand on that sideline and clap for
at least Cortez as she runs by the

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five mile mark and the seven mile
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there is nothing that makes my heart
feel better. And every time that I

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start I clap for at least Cortez
or someone else. It empowers me and

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it makes me go the extra mob
more for things that I want. So

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those two things, clapping for others
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what feeds me more than anything.
We have some strong similarity there that we've

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talked about over time that I just
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And going back to what you said, Sean about the race that I

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did this weekend of it was it
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which which is what's great about that, Sean, Which is what I

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love to do with other people as
well. When I'm coaching them, we're

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working with organizations. Is you can
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Well, what happened for me this
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Floor half marathon here in Dallas.
And I've run many half marathons. I

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actually schedule three half marathons a year
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That's why I do that. So
right, so I don't do full marathons

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anymore, per se because I just
want to be able to have other time

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for other things. But I intended, let me just run, let me

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just get a two hour on this
deal. I knew I could do that

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pretty handily. So went out and
I came out sean starting the day feeling

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like I'm a little tired, my
allergies to bother me. Let's just see

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how we do. You know,
maybe I won't even be able to finish,

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and that's okay, And started a
list of excuses of you know,

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letting myself off the hook, right, So start to run the first two

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miles to feel okay. And then
of course here's the great thing. Right,

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So you talked about knowing what lights
you up. I love connecting with

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people So I ended up passing by
this gentleman and we start. I say

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hello to him as I pass him
by, and I hear his accent and

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he I say, where are you
from? He said Brazil. I said,

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ah, follow Portaguze, and I
started speaking Portuguese with him, and

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I said, oh, you can
give me a you know, Portuguese lesson

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while while we're running. So we're
talking back and forth and Portuguese and I

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am just now I'm on a whole
new level, Sean. I mean,

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I have been activated in right.
So he just that little simple connection something

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that matters to me, back to
that whole being connected to the world thing.

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I was already into a new state. Well then I went into the

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usual place like where I like to
live, Which is what you said before,

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is I like to look for people
when I'm in a race like that

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and I'm running. What I'm looking
for, Sean, is I'm looking for

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people that I can touch and inspire
and uplift. So I'm looking for somebody

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to it's got a great gait,
great stride, or they just look strong,

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or I love their shorts or whatever
it is. And as I passed

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them, I tell them that,
and the reason I do that, Sean,

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is because I want them. I
want to give them something, and

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I don't do it for me,
but I do get something from that that

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activates me. And it was fascinating
because I was running with my my Brazilian

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friend was named Berto, Alberto was
his name. Anyway, at mile eight,

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I don't know, something happened to
me, Sean, I don't know

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00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.759
what it was. I stopped at
the water station. While I didn't,

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I grabbed some water and I drank
it and I put that cup down and

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I was like, dang it,
let's finish this thing. Let's bring this

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thing home. And it was like
something happened where the spark plug went off,

427
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.519
you and your spark plug. I
guess. I don't know. Anyway,

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I literally started my kick at mile
eight to finish five miles, and

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I don't know where it came from, but something just happened in me.

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And I looked ahead of the people
running ahead of me, and I said

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to myself, bring me home,
pull me in. So my focus was

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all about just running. And I
mean, I mean it was a good

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pace. I mean it felt so
strong and I knew I was going fast

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and a couple of times I thought
to myself, Oh, man, Quartez,

435
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:42.920
you're going to poop out, You're
going to run out of gas here,

436
00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:45.960
You're not gonna be able to carry
this for the next five miles.

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But to your point, I just
kept going and I had it wasn't quite

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a pr I was. I did
it in one hour and fifty four minutes

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and eight seconds. I've done one
fifty three before, but that was fifteen

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years ago. Anyway. The point
being is something happened that triggered in my

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mind that I could do it,
and that I didn't let myself off the

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00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.720
hook. And what's great about that
and when I work with people about their

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whole notion of how do they achieve
something breakthrough in their own lives? For

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me, that just opened up so
many other possibilities as to how I then

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saw my ability to do other things, how to work with people, how

446
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.319
to find other audiences that I think
would be really interesting to speak with.

447
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:32.240
So that whole notion of going the
extra mile sewn it works. You're right,

448
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.400
it works. Well, it's something
really interesting. I think if we

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go back to that, that the
half marathon and you kicking those last five

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miles. See, I believe that
you created that. You created that because

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you created the mindset to get there
first. The first eight miles of that

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race, you were encouraging, and
you were inspiring, and you were being

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you were being physical and exercising and
moving your body. All the very best

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was coming out of the last quartets. I mean a great physical effort,

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00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:02.680
great encouraging efforts. So, man, you were feeding your brain and you

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were starting to feel good. And
so that at that at eight miles,

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all of a sudden, you said, let's let's let's take this baby home.

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Let's finish this one. Man,
that's the whistler. It's it's like

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00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.559
saying, at least you've done all
the prep. Now we're ready to go.

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00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.640
You've sparked our engine upstairs. We're
ready to go. You've got this

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00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.640
now because you created that. You
created the conversations with all those people.

462
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You created that. I know recently
too, that you just got a speaking

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00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:33.759
gig to speak to some high school
students. And I know from having talked

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to you that you created that by
reaching out and contacting people, the contacting

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the organizer. This whole show is
about how to live the best version of

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00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.079
ourselves to life in life. This
is how you do it. We become

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00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:55.559
creators. We create conversations, we
create opportunities, we create possibilities. We

468
00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:01.640
have that power and every time that
we do something positive, positive builds,

469
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:07.960
positive mojo builds. And your example
right now on this half marathon and taking

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yourself to the finish line, that's
because you created that. Thank you,

471
00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:16.880
Sean. I do I accept that. I absolutely agree with that, and

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you're right. I Mean, one
of the things that I find so amazing

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is, yeah, I think that
there's this idea that if you're if you're,

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if you just show up, you
know that things will go well for

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you. The universe will will reward
you. And I think there is some

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00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.599
truth to that, and I think
we really have to ask for what we

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00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.079
want. We have to formulate what
is it that we want, and then

478
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.160
we have to go after We have
to have a plan, we have to

479
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.359
go after it, and we have
to ask for it. And you know,

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00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.039
I will say, you're right.
I mean, I had some tremendous

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00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:50.519
advice from this really terrific success coach
that I work with, and let me

482
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:52.240
just say that it's you, because
there's no reason not to say so.

483
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:58.680
But working with you, Sean and
just help having having you be that voice

484
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.119
with me that helps me formulate where
am I going? What am I doing?

485
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:06.839
You know? And I want to
credit you because really in our conversations

486
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.680
when we were chatting about possibilities,
where did I want to speak? Where

487
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:10.720
did I want to do next?
Who do I want to be in front

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00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.799
of? Who do I want to
matter to? Right? That was the

489
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:17.359
conversation. And when you said,
well, why don't you speak at this

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00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.519
all girls conference? And you know, for the moment, for whatever reason,

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00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.119
it hadn't occurred to me. I
don't know why. It just ran

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00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:28.680
over the top of my head,
but you caught it. And had you

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00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.720
not caught it, Sean, I
would have missed that opportunity. So I

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00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.480
do want to thank you for that, because I'm so stoked to go and

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00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.720
speak with this group of girls down
in Austin and early November, and it's

496
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.519
you know, it's because of you. Thank you well, I thank you,

497
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.559
Thank you so much. Elise.
I believe that if we open our

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eyes to what truly exists as far
as possibility, all of us, there

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00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:53.559
is so much opportunity all around us, and all it takes is for us

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00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:58.880
to be able to see the opportunity, cast a vision for it, and

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00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:04.000
then follow through with I think the
greatest secret to success ever is action.

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00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.840
Taking action, possibilities, leads a
vision, take action, live the best

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00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:14.559
life you can, no question,
and again perfect segue into our next break.

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00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.480
I'm Elise Cortez, your host.
We've been on the air with Shawn

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00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:21.559
Anderson, who is a human spark
plug behind the Extra Mile Day and the

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00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.079
author of Amicus one oh one,
a story about the pursuit of purpose and

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00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:29.119
overcoming life's chaos. He joins us
a day from Una del Rey in California.

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00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:49.159
Stay with us, It's your world. Motivate, change, Succeed.

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00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:58.800
Voice America Empowerment dot com. Elise
Cortez is a speaker and engagement and development

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00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:04.559
catalyst. She DESI and delivers professional
development, leadership and engagement workshops and can

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bring her expertise to your organization.
She will help ignite meaningful development within your

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workforce that will increase employee engagement,
performance and retention. To learn more or

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00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:19.360
to invite Elise to speak to your
organization, please visit her at www dot

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00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:23.400
Elise Cortez dot com. She would
welcome the opportunity to help get your employees

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Now back to Working on Purpose.
Thanks for staying with us, and

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00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.960
welcome back to Working on Purpose.
If you're just tuning in. My guest

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00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:12.960
is motivational author, unlimited thinker,
and lifetime entrepreneur Sean Anderson. He's a

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00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:15.519
six time author with the latest book
called Amicus one oh one, a story

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00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:20.840
about the pursuit of purpose and overcoming
life's chaos. He is also the human

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00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:23.639
spart plug behind Extra Mile Day a
Day, recognizing the power we have to

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00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.320
create positive change when we go the
extra mile. I'm your host, Alice

527
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.800
Cortez, So Sean, one of
the things that I thought would be kind

528
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.840
of fun, since I don't know
that you've ever heard me tell this story

529
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.840
to you, but I want to
actually let you on a little bit of

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00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.880
a secret as to how it is
I got into the work that I'm doing

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00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:46.039
and why I do it, And
it starts with a fun story of getting

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00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:52.159
fired a long time ago. And
so here's here's how it went down.

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00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.000
I grew up in a small town
in Oregon, and I my parents were

534
00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.800
fantastic entrepreneurs. College was not on
their on their wavelength, wasn't on mine

535
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.519
either, So I took at the
first job that I got in the really

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00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.800
exotic city of Portland, Oregon.
Oh my gosh, I hit the jackpot.

537
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:13.599
I was this admin assist to this
bigger than life real estate commercial developer,

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00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:16.639
Sean Roland Hardle is his name,
if he's listening, He's my hero.

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00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.960
Anyway, I've worked for him for
a year and a half Sean,

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00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.920
and I loved working for him.
He was just dynamic and fun and I

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00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.960
just really enjoyed learning his business,
etc. And I was nineteen years old

542
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.880
and making it eight hundred bucks a
month and thought that was all the money

543
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.039
in the world, et cetera.
Just crazy. Anyway, one day,

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00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:39.880
this man walks out to go to
lunch and he says, you have to

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00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:43.159
get out of here. You have
to go see the world, get an

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00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.280
education, to do something with your
life, but before you go hire your

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00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:52.679
replacement, and the door shut and
I sat there sean, going wow,

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00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:57.159
what the heck just happened. I
literally sat there, seated like that the

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00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:59.559
whole time he was gone for lunch. When he came back, she really

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00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:01.239
said, Hey, how's it going
at last, like nothing had ever happened.

551
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.199
I said, just before you go
back to your office, I just

552
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.800
have one question. Did you just
fire me? And he said, yes,

553
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:13.920
absolutely I did. You can't stay
here. It would be a crime

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00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.039
for me to keep you here.
So before I tell you what I got

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00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:20.599
out of that, I just want
to get your reaction. What do you

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00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:24.079
What do you think about that in
terms of a life event? I think

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00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:30.599
Roland's an awesome guy. Man.
You know, Roland was not a selfish

558
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:36.440
person. He was so self less
and letting this amazing admin assistant at Last

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00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:40.639
Cortez go live her dreams. And
he's recognized, He recognized something special in

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00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.239
you, a fire in you,
and he just he just needed an end

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00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.599
you to go live this life,
this better version of you, because he

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00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.960
didn't think you were doing it.
So I say, man, Roland,

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00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.199
if we could all be Rolands,
that would be pretty great. Well,

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00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:57.360
and I completely agree, and you
got out of it exactly what I was

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00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.800
hoping that you heard out of it. So what I wanted to say about

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you know what, what's this man's
role in my life? Other than saving

567
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.440
my life? I had, by
the way, kept in touch with him

568
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.159
over all of these years. In
fact, last year, he and I

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00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:13.400
planned his his eightieth birthday party together, which he called a living wake.

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00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.719
He wanted people to come together and
celebrate and say what they thought about him

571
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.960
without him being dead. I thought
that was a brilliant idea. Yeah,

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00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.400
so we planned that and did that. It was so fun. But anyway,

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so what I want to say about
that is, you know, before

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00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:30.360
I met that man Sean, I
didn't It didn't occur to me that I

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00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.800
could go to college. So I
mean, I think I did the college

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00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.360
thing. I have a bachelor's degree, two masters, and a PhD.

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00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.679
So I think I did the education
thing. I think you did. I

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00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.719
didn't occur to me that I could
live or I could go to visit other

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countries. Certainly not no other languages, et cetera. So I did live

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00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.000
in Spain and Brazil, and I
learned Spanish and Portuguese and the French and

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00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.480
the Italian and I love knowing and
getting to travel throughout the world. Today,

582
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:59.880
I think I've delivered content on all
all of the continents. I think

583
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.480
anyway, now this bit about doing
something with my life, I'm still doing

584
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.199
that, and that's that's an ongoing
creation for me. But when I think

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00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.400
about why do I do what I
do? If he hadn't given me that

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00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.559
spark, Sean, if he hadn't
opened my eyes to the possibility that there's

587
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:20.519
so much in this huge, fast
life for me that I wasn't even letting

588
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.920
myself see that, I wouldn't have
ever gotten the hunger to help to do

589
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:28.840
that for myself. So I'm all
about this notion of ongoing self realization.

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What can we do where there's no
end? And the reason that I work

591
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.280
in a feel the really learning development
transformation. You know, that whole notion

592
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:42.719
of human growth is because I need
that for myself and I got that bug

593
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:45.119
from Roland. And so the work
that I get to do by developing and

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00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:50.000
working with others is kind of like
we've been saying about that whole thing of

595
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.000
touching and uplifting others by doing it
with and for others, I get it

596
00:40:54.079 --> 00:41:00.360
for myself, and so it's kind
of a reinforcing selfish reason to be in

597
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:02.400
the business. But that's why I
do what I do. Well, that's

598
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.239
a really great story. You know, people like Roland inspire me. I

599
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:14.519
mean, you know, just to
just to give up so much to help

600
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:20.719
someone else get so much, I
mean that that kind of sets the bar

601
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.800
for me. I applaud Roland completely. I so blessed, You're so blessed

602
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:27.199
to have met someone like that,
because it sounds as if that was a

603
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.199
real trigger moment in your life.
I mean, all of a sudden,

604
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:36.639
you became exposed to thinking more,
of being more because someone thought that you

605
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:39.199
were more. And you know,
isn't that the way it is? Sometimes

606
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:45.119
we if we if we can bring
out the best and others by helping them

607
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:50.360
think more or see who they truly
are. I believe that we can help

608
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:54.519
others live the best part of their
life too. And I think that it's

609
00:41:54.519 --> 00:42:00.400
a selfish it's a selfish question.
It's a selfish goal for me. Just

610
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.519
who want to go live my very
best life without helping other people live their

611
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:08.960
very best life? And I think
I live my better life when I help

612
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:14.320
others live their better life, and
all of us have that opportunity. All

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00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:17.800
of us are surrounded either by young
people or people at co workers or whatever,

614
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.920
and there's something pretty awesome about each
of those people that surround us.

615
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.840
So why not let them know.
Why not all be rollins for a day

616
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:29.639
and just say, Wow, you
know that you've got some talent there,

617
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:32.760
girl, you go go do that. Or you know you've got the greatest,

618
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:37.599
most infectious laugh and smile. You
were meant to do customer service work.

619
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.800
You were meant to help light up
people's day. Thank you so much

620
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.000
for that. I think the more
the more that we help others see the

621
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:51.760
best of their life, the best
parts of them, I think, then

622
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:59.280
we really start to see and feel
and believe the very best about ourselves.

623
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.039
Oh. I completely agree. And
I got to say two things to that,

624
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:06.760
Sean. So the first thing I'll
say is one of the reasons I

625
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.559
love working with leaders to develop them
is because they can have such an impact

626
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.119
like Rowland had on me. And
I remind them of that. I tell

627
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.840
them, Look, you have no
idea sometimes the effect, the power,

628
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.239
the impact that you can have positively
or negatively on people. So let's you

629
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.199
know, focus on the positive stuff. And that's one of the reasons I

630
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.599
love so much of developing and working
with people in that capacity. It's just

631
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.400
it's just it's huge. And then
the second thing I was going to say

632
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:36.880
is that another thing that I absolutely
love doing is I really love getting to

633
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:43.280
speak to groups of women, especially
women's leadership groups, because there's something about

634
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:46.679
going into a room of women and
just and sitting with them and being with

635
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:52.679
them and seeing them for who they
are and who they can be, and

636
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.320
helping connect, helping them connect with
what they what they actually could be,

637
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.559
and helping them see that put that
together, and then support board each other

638
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.000
in the process of seeing that through. There's something so magical about that,

639
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:07.079
Sean. And yes, I love
doing it with men and women, but

640
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:12.199
there's something when I'm in a group
with just women that just brings me alive

641
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.039
and brings the group alive too.
That it's all about possibility. It's all

642
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:21.159
about seeing something in somebody that they
maybe can't see for themselves or won't see

643
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.360
for themselves. Well, I think
that you started feeding your whispers so much

644
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:29.840
that they've turned into shouts, which
is really awesome because when when our whispers

645
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:32.440
turn into shouts. Man, that's
where our real passion starts to flow.

646
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:37.840
And that's that when when our passion's
flowing, that's what helps us get through

647
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:44.119
our failures and our defeats and our
tragedies. It's it's life becomes tougher when

648
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.840
we're not feeling passionate about it.
So amen for you starting to hear shouts

649
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.079
not just whispers. I like the
way you said that. I hadn't considered

650
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:55.119
that, but you know what,
what you're what I hear when you say

651
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:59.519
that, Sean, is what I
oftentimes try to work with people when I'm

652
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:02.320
coaching them, is helping them find
their voice. Right? Where is that

653
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:06.679
voice? Where? How do we
take that whisper that you're hearing it starting

654
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:08.719
to nudge you and turn it into
first a voice and then ash out.

655
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:13.239
And isn't that the magic of getting
to work with people, of helping them

656
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.880
find that, unveil that for themselves, and then when it shows up in

657
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:21.360
the world, how amazing that is? It's just wow. I mean,

658
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:22.360
you wonder people say to you,
know, what do you get out of

659
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.320
your work besides the paycheck? Well, forget the paycheck, right, this

660
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.920
stuff right here is the gold when
somebody comes alive in front of you.

661
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.239
Oh my goshean, And I know
you've seen that a million times in the

662
00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.039
work that you've done. Hey,
let me ask you a question. Okay,

663
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.119
So we're talking today about how to
live the best life, and we've

664
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:44.920
been talking about this whispers that the
whispers lead to. You know, what

665
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.679
our truest passions are, what our
purpose could be. Let me ask you

666
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:57.440
a lease, how do people hear
their whispers? Well? I think first

667
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.679
they need to be they need to
be present and willing, you know,

668
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.760
to listen to that. In other
words, they've they've got they've got to

669
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:07.960
have there's got to be an opening
somehow and that and that that might be

670
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.559
if you think about it actually just
physically. You know, you can think

671
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:13.239
of the opening in your ear right, but you've got to have some kind

672
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:15.760
of an opening that gives you a
space to be able to hear that whisper

673
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.400
first and foremost, because it's there, the whispers already there. It's a

674
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.119
matter of how do we hear it
right? And I think that part of

675
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.400
it is sometimes we need help from
the outside, which is why we work

676
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:30.159
with a coach and they help us
presence that whisper in a way that we

677
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:35.239
can actually hear it. I think
that another way to do that is from

678
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:39.679
the internal place of just really paying
attention to what are those things that really

679
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:44.079
light us up? Like the work
that I'm doing with this this this executive

680
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.000
woman. What is it that that
she if she just pays attention, if

681
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:52.000
she just gives her her mind over
to what is it? Where is that

682
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:53.079
whisper? Where does it come from? What does it sound like? What

683
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.880
is it saying? I think I
think it can come from within and from

684
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.599
without, and sometimes we need both. What do you think, Well,

685
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:07.719
how do you advocate people being able
to create environments inside and out to find

686
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.159
it? Do you is it something
that we need to actively schedule in our

687
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.440
day to do? I mean how
because because people go, yes, I

688
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:17.000
need to listen to my whisper.
Yes, I need to connect with people

689
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:21.880
on the outside or inside. But
then all of a sudden, after this

690
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.280
moment's gone, we forget life hits
us, and then all of a sudden

691
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:32.079
it's over. So how do you
suggest that we get connected with this inside

692
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.239
and outside? Do we schedule it? How does it work? Well?

693
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:38.880
A couple of things that I've done
with people over the years and frankly for

694
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:43.639
myself too, Sean, I am. I'm a big advocate of discipline and

695
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:46.679
schedule. I think that if we
really want the lives that we really really

696
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:51.239
say that we want, well we
have to actually counter that. It actually

697
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.199
has to show up as a date
with ourselves. It's something that we honor

698
00:47:54.320 --> 00:48:00.199
for ourselves and through ourselves, and
that happens usually by scheduling some thing on

699
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.000
our calendar that says this time is
for me. So I am a huge

700
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.719
fan of yes, something daily and
usually at the same time, whether you're

701
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.480
a morning person like me I love
the mornings, or whether you're a night

702
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:14.719
owl and you want to do it
then, but having something in your calendar

703
00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.239
where you even if it's just ten
minutes or five minutes, and you take

704
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.039
that time and this is where you
capture what is it that let you effect.

705
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:23.920
I've got another another person I'm coaching
with right now. Part of her

706
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:30.400
her job is to take is to
be able to calendar and capture something every

707
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:35.000
day at six pm that just lights
her up, that actually was great about

708
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:37.880
her day or what she did.
So, yes, there's something about that

709
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.760
whole thing of ongoing discipline and then
scheduling it. The other thing though,

710
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.360
is that I think, you know, in terms of really, you know,

711
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:51.320
getting clear about this, sometimes it
really helps to be able to kind

712
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:53.960
of hold the mirror up to ourselves. And what I mean by that,

713
00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:59.280
Sean is and I've done it for
myself too. It's incredibly invaluable going out

714
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:04.400
and interview people who who who we
interact with and hearing you know, what

715
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:07.440
what are they what? How how
do we show up for them? What

716
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.159
do they get from us? And
you can there's a lot of questions you

717
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:13.760
can ask around that, but I
think there's something about that because I think

718
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:19.079
we walk through life so blind sometimes
that we just it's there, we just

719
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.000
can't see it, we can't hear
it. So again that's still the inside

720
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.599
and outside kind of thing, but
that's what I like to advocate for m

721
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.119
I think that's a beautiful answer,
you know, scheduling those moments in our

722
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:36.360
in our world where we know we
have to be present, where where we

723
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:39.480
know we have to really set that
time aside to think, to feel,

724
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:45.320
to be aware. I personally call
mine my morning meetings, and so the

725
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:49.760
first thing before I talk to anybody
every morning is I have this really disciplined

726
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:59.000
meeting with these these individual activities that
help create my positive momentum for the day,

727
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.079
that helped create my positive mindset.
It's almost like going back to your

728
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:08.679
half marathon. My morning meeting symbolizes
my first eight miles of your race,

729
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:15.239
where you're building you in order to
go sprint those last five miles. So

730
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:22.760
my morning meeting sparks me to live
pretty awesome for the rest of my day.

731
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:29.119
And I think the more that people
really take the time to read positive

732
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:34.039
stuff, to listen to positive stuff, to to work with positive people like

733
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:38.719
you, to surround themselves with positive
influences, the more that they're going to

734
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:46.519
start feeding the very best of themselves. I completely concur that we must continue

735
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:51.559
to feed ourselves with positive inspiration because
you know, life can be hard,

736
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:57.719
and I think an ongoing diet is
essential. Yes, here we are sean

737
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:00.199
almost just a couple of minutes before
we have to close the show. I

738
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.719
want to just give you a chance
to say it or anything that you want

739
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:07.320
to make sure that you leave our
listeners with today. You know, this

740
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.320
is a long time ago. I
had heard in a speech that there were

741
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.199
two dates that were left with the
date that we are born and the date

742
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.280
that we die. Those are the
two dates on many people's tombstones that they're

743
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.119
remembered by. But each of us
had very little to do with the date

744
00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.519
that we are born. We have
very little to do with the date that

745
00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:29.199
we die. In fact, we
for the most part, we had nothing.

746
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:32.480
But that's not where life is.
Life is all the dates in between.

747
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:37.039
It's it's it's it's before the November
twenty, nineteen sixty two, and

748
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:39.960
it's all the way to the end
whenever. That is for me. But

749
00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:44.719
I have everything to do with all
those dates in the middle. You,

750
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.320
as a listener, you have everything
to do with the dates that you're living

751
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:52.519
right now. There will come a
time, there will come a time when

752
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:55.079
you don't have control over those dates
anymore. And so we need to be

753
00:51:55.159 --> 00:52:00.159
aware of the fact that this is
our time. Now is our time.

754
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:07.280
It's our time to travel the world. It's our time to dance the dances.

755
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.960
It's our time to sing the karaoke
bars. It's our time to take

756
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.400
the risks. It's our time to
make great friends. It's our time to

757
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:22.360
write amazing things. It's our time
to listen to the birds, it's our

758
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:27.400
time to walk on the beach,
It's our time to live. Now is

759
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:30.400
our time. And going back to
the very beginning of topic, how do

760
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:37.280
you live your best life? It's
realizing that now is your time to do

761
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:42.840
so take advantage of your time.
Wow. I can't say it any better

762
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.000
than that, Sean, and we're
out of time anyway. So I want

763
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.199
to thank you so much for joining
me. I have so enjoyed this conversation.

764
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:52.119
You have a great heart, you
have great intention, and I know

765
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.719
that great things are in store for
you. Thank you, Sean, and

766
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:59.719
for listeners, if you want to
find more about this great man who've been

767
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.440
chat with, please visit his website. It's Sean Anderson dot com. Catch

768
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:13.239
you next week. We hope you've
enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to

769
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.400
tune into Working on Purpose featuring your
host Alice Cortez, every Wednesday at six

770
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:22.440
pm Eastern Time three pm Pacific Time
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00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:25.079
week, find your life's purpose at
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